Three real ingredients — grass-fed-and-finished beef tallow, organic jojoba oil, and Manuka honey. Formulated by a pharmacist, made in the USA. You made a good choice; here’s how to get the most from your jar.
Tallow cream isn’t a slather-it-on cream. It’s concentrated, and it rewards a gentle hand. Five small steps, and your skin does the rest.
Truly — pea-sized. This is richer and more concentrated than anything you’re used to, and it goes much further than you’d expect. If your skin feels heavy or looks shiny, you used too much. Begin small; you can always add a touch more.
The best moment is right after a shower or after splashing your face, while your skin still holds a little water. Tallow seals that moisture in instead of letting it evaporate — so damp skin absorbs it beautifully and you need even less.
Scoop a small amount and rub it between your fingers for a few seconds until it turns silky and nearly melts. Press it into your skin rather than dragging it across. Warming it first is the difference between a thin, even layer and a greasy patch.
At night, it’s your last step — let it work overnight while you sleep. In the morning, use a touch less and give it a minute to settle before anything goes on top. Most people land on once or twice daily; let your skin tell you.
Water-based serums go on first, then your tallow cream over the top to lock them in — that’s the order skin likes. In the morning, let it absorb for a minute, then apply your SPF over it. Think of tallow as the final, protective layer of your routine.
Each variant has its own moment. Here’s how to get the most from the one in your hands.
This is an evening jar. Real lavender is genuinely calming, so make it the last thing you do before bed — warm it, press it in, and breathe. A little on the chest and the backs of the hands turns a skincare step into a signal to your body that the day is done.
Frankincense has been prized for skin for thousands of years, and it shines where skin is asking for a little more — fine lines, the corners of the eyes, the look of maturing skin. Apply it slowly and on purpose, pressing into the areas you most want to nurture. This is your considered, targeted ritual.
Nothing added, nothing to react to — just whipped grass-fed-and-finished tallow, organic jojoba oil, and Manuka honey. It’s the right choice for reactive or easily irritated skin, fragrance-free households, and anyone who shares their jar across the family. Equally at home on your face, your elbows, and your little one’s cheeks. The most versatile jar we make.
Substantiated by an independent Repeat Insult Patch Test (RIPT) on sensitive skin — zero reactions recorded, dermatologist-reviewed.
Real questions from real people opening their first jar. We’ll never talk down to you — here’s the straight story.
Because it’s real. Your cream is whipped from grass-fed-and-finished beef tallow with nothing synthetic, so the Unscented jar carries a faint scent of exactly what it is. That mild smell is the honest signature of an ingredient that hasn’t been stripped, bleached, or masked with lab-made fragrance.
Here’s the part people are always relieved to hear: it fades within a minute or two of touching your skin and doesn’t linger. If you’d prefer a scent to carry through, our Lavender and Frankincense jars are gently scented with real botanicals. But that faint richness in the Unscented? That’s the smell of skincare the way it used to be made.
For most people, no — but let’s be honest about it, because there’s a real difference between purging and a reaction. Tallow sits at a comedogenic rating of 2 to 3, meaning it’s low-to-moderate on the pore-clogging scale. We don’t hide that, and we’d rather you understand it than be surprised by it.
If your skin runs very oily or acne-prone, you’re the most likely to want to go slowly. Start with the pea-sized amount only, a few nights a week, and let your skin adjust. A short stretch of small bumps in the first week or two is usually purging — your skin clearing out as it adapts — and it settles. A reaction is different: redness, itching, or irritation that arrives fast and doesn’t calm down. If that happens, stop, and reach out to us. The Unscented jar is your safest starting point if you’re cautious.
About five to six months, used the way it’s meant to be — a pea-sized amount once a day. That surprises people, but it’s the whole point of a concentrated whipped cream: a little does the work of a lot, so a single jar outlasts almost everything else on your shelf.
Use it twice daily and you’re looking at roughly three months. Either way, when you do the math per day, this is one of the most economical things in your routine — and a small jar that lasts half a year is exactly how it should be.
Yes — this is one cream for all of you, and that’s by design. The same whipped tallow that softens your face is wonderful on dry elbows, hands, heels, shins, and anywhere skin feels tight or weathered. There’s no separate “body version” to buy.
On the body, you can be a little more generous, especially on rough or very dry spots. On the face, stay with the pea-sized amount. Many people keep one jar by the bathroom sink for their face and a second by the bedside for hands and feet — same cream, two rituals.
Because it’s a real fat, not a stabilized cream, and it responds to its surroundings the way butter does. In a warm room it turns soft and silky; somewhere cool it firms right up. Both are completely normal and neither changes how well it works.
If it ever firms up more than you’d like, just warm a scoop between your fingertips for a few seconds and it returns to that whipped, melt-into-skin texture. A cream that shifts with the temperature is a cream that hasn’t been propped up with synthetic stabilizers — another honest sign it’s the real thing.
Only if you use too much — and that’s the most common first-time mistake. The fix is the ritual: take a genuinely pea-sized amount, warm it between your fingertips until it turns silky, and press it into slightly damp skin. Applied that way, it absorbs into a soft, healthy finish rather than sitting on top.
If you ever look a little dewy at first, give it ten minutes — skin keeps drinking it in and the sheen settles. We use organic jojoba oil rather than olive oil precisely because jojoba mirrors the oils your own skin makes, so a small amount sinks in instead of sliding around.
Our Unscented jar is about as simple and gentle as skincare gets — three real ingredients and nothing else — which is why so many parents reach for it during pregnancy, while nursing, and on their children’s skin. No fragrance, no synthetics, no long list to vet at midnight.
Our founder is a licensed pharmacist, but we’re not your pharmacist — so for anything specific to your pregnancy or your child, always check with your own provider first. If you want the most cautious choice for a sensitive season of life, start with Unscented and keep the scented jars for yourself.
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— Aurora, Founder